Tech & Science Facebook opens up social VR app Spaces to Groups

14:47 13 february 2018

14:47 13 february 2018 Source:
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Facebook launches &dollar;10 million community leader awards

Facebook launched a community leadership program on Friday that will award &dollar;10 million in total to more than 100 people who have successfully built groups on the social network as part of its push to create "meaningful" interactions.The initiative, announced at a Facebook Communities Summit in London, will give five people with a track record in creating groups up to &dollar;1 million to fund a project, Facebook's Jennifer Dulski said.

As Facebook looks to keep its VR dream moving, the company is opening its nascent social VR platform to Facebook brings Live broadcasting to its Spaces virtual reality app . Browse more HTC Vive. Up Next. SendBird raises another M to help developers add chat functions to a service.

By opening up Spaces to Groups , Facebook has amped up the social aspect of the app . Since that also means you could end up in a single VR environment with people you don't know that well -- or at all -- Facebook has ensured you can report people and mute or pause the experience anytime.

Facebook Spaces is no longer just a place for you to hang out with friends and family in your list: you can also use it to form bonds with people in the Groups you're in. You can now host or join a VR Space with up to four people from a Group, so you can discuss shared interests in virtual reality. The social VR app allows you to connect with new people in a deeper way: you could, for instance, conduct practice sessions together using VR props if you're all part of a music or a stand-up comedy group. You could perform in one Space as a band and livestream your performance to friends. You could also watch videos together or just chat and get to know one another at a deeper level in a VR environment.

Less-cool Facebook losing youth at fast pace: survey

With mom, dad and grandma signing up in increasing numbers, Facebook is losing younger users in the United States at a faster pace than previously estimated, researchers said Monday.&nbsp;A report by eMarketer said Snapchat is drawing youths away from Facebook at a quicker clip than Facebook-owned Instagram.

As Facebook looks to keep its VR dream moving, the company is opening up its nascent social VR platform to run on headsets that the company doesn’t build. Today, a VR exec at the company announced that Facebook Spaces would be gaining support to run on the competing HTC Vive

As Facebook looks to keep its VR dream moving, the company is opening up its nascent social VR platform to run on headsets that the company doesn’t build. Today, a VR exec at the company announced that Facebook Spaces would be gaining support to run on the competing HTC Vive

By opening up Spaces to Groups, Facebook has amped up the social aspect of the app. Since that also means you could end up in a single VR environment with people you don't know that well -- or at all -- Facebook has ensured you can report people and mute or pause the experience anytime. It's an early experimental feature, though, so you'll likely encounter bugs as you go along, meeting new friends through your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive headsets.

German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal .
The verdict, from a Berlin regional court, comes as Big Tech faces increasing scrutiny in Germany over its handling of sensitive personal data that enables it to micro-target online advertising. The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzvb) said that Facebook's default settings and some of its terms of service were in breach of consumer law, and that the court had found parts of the consent to data usage to be invalid.

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As Facebook looks to keep its VR dream moving, the company is opening its nascent social VR platform to Facebook brings Live broadcasting to its Spaces virtual reality app . Browse more HTC Vive. Up Next. SendBird raises another $16M to help developers add chat functions to a service.

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By opening up Spaces to Groups , Facebook has amped up the social aspect of the app . Since that also means you could end up in a single VR environment with people you don't know that well -- or at all -- Facebook has ensured you can report people and mute or pause the experience anytime.

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Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it’s bringing Spaces , the company’s own social VR app , to HTC Vive. The company recently opened up the platform to third-party app developers however in effort to build out its offering of activities, including its first big mini-game update courtesy

Facebook has announced the latest stage of their VR social platform with a new VR app called ‘ Spaces ’ within which you can virtually interact with friends.

Facebook Spaces Community public group | Facebook - www.facebook.com

Press alt + / to open this menu. Facebook . Email or Phone. Password. Forgotten account? To connect with Facebook Spaces Community, sign up for Facebook today. This group is actively managed by the team at Facebook that works on the social VR team, and here in the background

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As Facebook looks to keep its VR dream moving, the company is opening up its nascent social VR platform to run on headsets that the company doesn’t build. Today, a VR exec at the company announced that Facebook Spaces would be gaining support to run on the competing HTC Vive

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As Facebook looks to keep its VR dream moving, the company is opening up its nascent social VR platform to run on headsets that the company doesn’t build. Today, a VR exec at the company announced that Facebook Spaces would be gaining support to run on the competing HTC Vive

Search this group . To connect with Google Daydream & Gear VR Social Community -> MobileVR, sign up for Facebook today. VR Collage tutorial for Facebook Spaces and how to save work that can't be completed in one session.

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